It’s time to change to a safe haven “Futurenet” the social media platform that pays the user.
In this short Cifas Data To Go video, Facebook coffee shop customers were shocked when they “liked” the shops Facebook page.
Customers were baffled when they were presented with a free coffee – complete with their personal data written on the cup.
In this short film we see the risk of identity theft on Facebook when people like a Facebook page when other and about.
In this exercise random people were offered a coffee and croissant if they would like the coffee shop’s Facebook page. Taking 3 minutes to create a superb coffee allowed the background researchers enough time to search public websites to get much of the customer’s information. We see they have managed to get hold of customers’ full names, where they live, date of birth, occupation and even where they bank.
The information was then radioed to the barista who wrote it on the coffee cup and handed it to the customer.
Hidden cameras captured their shocked reactions as their personal information was reeled off to them as they were handed their free coffee.
The short film, Data to Go, was launched by Cifas, the UK’s leading fraud prevention service, in light of their new figures showing a 52% rise in young identity fraud victims in the UK.
Just under 24,000 (23,959) people aged 30 and under were victims of identity fraud in 2015, up from 15,766 in 2014, and 11,000 in this age bracket in 2010, meaning the figure has more than doubled in the past six years.
More than 85% of the frauds were carried out online. While some personal details were found by hacking computers, Cifas found that fraudsters were increasingly using social media to gather information about someone’s identity.
